Are there any other animals besides humans that prefer cooked food? Not just that will eat it, but will actually go out of their way to get cooked food if possible? My assumption here is that before humans developed the ability to create and control fire, they needed the motivation to do so, and I'd expect coming across accidentally cooked food, then deciding they liked it and trying to come up with ways to make it less accidental, would be an important first step in developing fire making technology. Fire making is unique to humans AFAIK, but I'm wondering if any other animals show any of the precursors.